250 EYES-FEATURES - LIPS, &c. 4. Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects: Extreme heat mortifies, like extreme cold; 5. For ever in a passion or a prayer. CHAPMAN. POPE. 1. EYES-FEATURES - LIPS, &c. Compare her eyes, Not to the sun, for they do shine by night; Nor to the fire, for they consume not ever :- 2. And, as the bright sun glorifies the sky, So is her face illumin'd by her eye. 3. Her eyes, in heaven, SPENSER'S Sonnets. SHAKSPEARE. Would through the airy region stream so bright, SHAKSPEARE. 4. Her eyes, like marygold, had sheathed their light, 5. From woman's eyes this doctrine I derive: SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. 6. Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes. SHAKSPEARE. 7. Soft as the down, that swells the cygnet's nest. 8. 9. In those sunk eyes the grief of years I trace, 10. In one soft look what language lies! 11. Her eyes outshine the radiant beams 12. By your eyes of heavenly blue, Your voice, the music of the spheres! SHENSTONE. GAY'S Dione. TICKELL. DIBDIN. BURNS. The Padlock-A Farce. 13. Which melted in love, and which kindled in war. CAMPBELL. 14. From the glance of her eye Shun danger and fly, For fatal's the glance of Kate Kearney. MISS OWENSON. 15. With sweetness and beauty thy daughters arise, With rose-blooming cheeks, and love-languishing eyes. 252 EYES-FEATURES-LIPS, &c. 16. Down her white neck, long, floating auburn curls, The least of which would set ten poets raving. BYRON'S Don Juan. 17. Her glossy hair was cluster'd o'er a brow Bright with intelligence, and fair and smooth; BYRON'S Don Juan. 18. An eye's an eye, and, whether black or blue, Is no great matter, so 't is in request; "T is nonsense to dispute about a hue; The kindest may be taken as the best. BYRON'S Don Juan. 19. A pure, transparent, pale, and radiant face, Like to a lighted alabaster vase. BYRON'S Don Juan. 20. Her eye's dark charm 't were vain to tell; But gaze on that of the gazelle, 21. Soft eyes look'd love to eyes that spoke again. BYRON'S Giaour. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 22. And the wild sparkle of her eye seem'd caught From high, and lighten'd with electric thought. BYRON'S Lara. 23. And eyes disclos'd what eyes alone can tell. 24. Eyes like the starlight of the soft midnight, So darkly beautiful, so deeply bright. DR. DWIGHT. MRS. C. H. W. ESLING. 25. And hate's last lightning quivers from his eyes. CHARLES SPRAGUE. 26. There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the queens of earth. BAILEY'S Festus. 27. With lightsome brow, and beaming eyes, and bright, Long, glorious locks, which drop upon thy cheek, Like gold-hued cloud-flakes on the rosy morn. 28. Thy blue eyes BAILEY'S Festus. Steal o'er the heart like sunshine o'er the skies; That to the inmost spirit wins its way; Surprising all the senses and the soul. MRS. A. B. WELBY. 29. The bright black eye, the melting blue- O. W. HOLMES. 30. Sweet, pouting lips, whose colour mocks the rose, R. H. WILDE's Tasso's Sonnets. 31. Yet well that eye could flash resentment's rays, C. F. HOFFMAN. 32. Let other men bow, and utter the vow But give me the eye, thro' which I can spy To the depths of a heart warm and true; J. T. WATSON. 2. I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, SHAKSPEARE. MILTON'S Comus. 3. And now they throng the moonlight glade, 4. In all the tricksy pomp of fairy pride! : DRAKE'S Culprit Fay. The palace of the sylphid queen- 5. Her mantle was the purple roll'd At twilight in the west afar; DRAKE'S Culprit Fay. 'Twas tied with threads of dawning gold, |